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The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781
By (Author) Samuel Johnson
Edited by Bruce Redford
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
828.609
Hardback
424
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
936g
The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form. The Hyde Edition is also the first systematically to record substantive deletions, which can yield